British boy returns home to UK after disappearing for six years
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Alex Batty has landed safely back in the UK after being found in France, according to local police.
A British boy who was found in France after going missing for six years has landed safely back in the UK, according to local police. Alex Batty never returned from holiday in Spain with his mother Melanie Batty and his grandfather in 2017. Now aged 17, he was found near the city of Toulouse in the French department of Haute-Garonne on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for regional authorities told CNN. “It gives me great pleasure to say Alex has now made his safe return back to the UK after six years,” Assistant Chief Constable Matt Boyle, of Greater Manchester Police, told reporters on Saturday, according to the UK’s national news agency, Press Association. The teenager met with a family member and UK police officers in the Toulouse airport before beginning his much-belated flight home, Boyle also said. Batty is expected to be reunited with his grandmother Susan Caruana, who lives in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and is the boy’s legal guardian, PA reported. In a statement issued through police, Caruana said she “can’t wait” to see her grandson.
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